Fix for Blown out footage?

Hello all.
I have to edit some footage shot by a cameraman who was basically clueless and did not know how to operate the iris on the camera... All of the people shot, look like ghosts.. the footage is very blown out...
I know there is no true fix to make the footage look 100% better, but there has to be some tweaking I can do...
I was just wondering if anyone has any experience repairing blown out footage and what exactly (filters, adjusting, etc.) they did to make it look somewhat better...
And suggestions would be greatly appreciated...
Thanks.
Justin

Justin,
More than likely, if the footage is way over exposed, there's no information there on the tape to actually do anything with. Try using the 3 way color corrector to see if you can do anything with brightness and contrast.
What was it shot on? Mini-dv? Betacam Sp? The better the quality format, the more information you may have laid to tape, which will help. (Better color sampling=More information to tape=better color correction ability)
Also, if that doesn't work, depending on the subject matter, you could possibly thinking about making it a really funky video. Thats usually not the best option, but if its a music video or something along those lines you might could tweak the color, to make it all purple or all green or something crazy, and/or do a negative effect on it. Or really funk it up with a old film look and stuff. I'm just throwing out suggestions. I hate doing that, cuz its usually way overdone, and I would consider it the very last option if you can't reshoot. But usually, if it looks like crap to begin with, you've got nothing to work with but crap.
Hope that helps,
Chris

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